ENG 695-1
Fall 2000
Schedule
last revised Nov. 27, 2000

Abbreviations:
B&H = The Rhetorical Tradition (Bizzell and Herzberg)
Glenn = Rhetoric Retold (Glenn)
Weeks and Dates
Readings and Assignments
Topic Focus
1. Aug 24
 B&H 1-7; 19-27; 
Glenn 18-49 
Early (Greek) Classical Background: Greek Presocratics, Sappho, Aspasia
2. Aug 31
B&H 43-54; 55-60; 130-43; 144-58 
Early (Greek) Classical Background: 
Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle
3. Sept. 7
 B&H 251-67 
(Cicero handout)
Tyra
 Later (Roman) Classical Background: 
Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero
4. Sept. 14
B&H 293-96; 334-52 
Glenn 56-73 
Xiaolin
Later (Roman) Classical Background: 
Quintilian, Roman Women and Review
5. Sept. 21
B&H 367-80 
Glenn 74-92 
Boethius, De topicis differentiis, 423-28
Introduction to Medieval Rhetoric 
6. Sept. 28
 B&H 386-422 
Andrew
 Augustine, De doctrina christiana
7. Oct. 5
 B&H 439-60 
Glenn 92-103 
Scott
 Robert of Basevorn,  Ars Praedicandi
Julian of Norwich
8. Oct. 12
B&H 429-38 
Handout
Kai
 Ars Dictaminis
"Principles of Letter Writing" 
Ars poetriae
9. Oct. 19
  B&H 463-80
Midterm Exam (First 90 mins)
Introduction to Renaissance Rhetoric 
10. Oct. 26
B&H 499-536; 550-56
Scott
 Erasmus
11. Nov. 2
     Erasmus handout
Kai
 Erasmus, De conscribendis epistolis
Melanchthon
12. Nov. 9
B&H 557-87
Handouts
Xiaolin
Peter Ramus
13. Nov. 16
  B&H 584-621
Andrew
 Thomas Wilson and Rhetoric in England 
15. Nov. 30
 B&H 622-34
On-Line Handout
Tyra
Francis Bacon
Vernacular Literacy
16. Dec. 7
 Handouts
Distribute Take-Home Final Exam
Case Study: Angel Day, The English Secretary
Distribute Course-Instructor Evaluations
Final Essay due
Dec. 11
17. Final 
 
  Final Due Thurs. Dec. 14, 4:15 pm